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Donald Trump, who cares deeply about the national anthem, is caught goofing off in a video by a "real estate agent for a Russian-American firm who frequents Mar-a-Lago," where Trump was watching the Super Bowl with paying customers
"As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band" during his Super Bowl party last night. account.miamiherald.com/paywall/stop?r…
For no particular reason, here's a reminder that Trump doesn't appear to even know the words to the National Anthem
While Trump has made respect for patriotic songs a core feature of his culture wars, it's worth noting that he also doesn't know the words to God Bless America
Taxpayers paid $3.4 million so that Trump could goof off during the National Anthem with paying customers at his luxury resort huffpost.com/entry/trump-su…
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Robert Maguire
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1/ I want to take this new episode of Trump Inc as an opportunity to talk about one of my favorite subjects: First time, often foreign-connected, donors who suddenly get tons of access to Trump and powerful people in his orbit
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trump…
2/ One thing that Parnas and Fruman have shown a spotlight on is just how easy it is to get access to Trump and his administration by giving large contributions to political groups that support him.

But Parnas and Fruman are far from the only examples.
3/ For example, before Parnas and Fruman, there was Cheng Gao, the "Buddhist artist" who moved to the US from China in 2015 and suddenly started giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump and the GOP motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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Robert Maguire
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NEW: In 2018, a pro-Trump dark money group paid $1.7 million to a firm "solely" owned by Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale.

The firm was formed just days after Trump tapped Parscale to run his 2020 campaign citizensforethics.org/america-first-…
These payments are in addition to the $910,000 in funds Parscale's firm received from a related pro-Trump super PAC—run by the same people out of the same office as the dark money group—which @VickyPJWard reported lasted August
cnn.com/2019/08/30/pol…
@VickyPJWard The firm, Red State Data and Digital, was formed just days after Parscale became Trump's campaign manager, and its only known clients are now two pro-Trump outside groups that aren't supposed to coordinate with the campaign.

All told, their payments total nearly $3.3 million.
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Robert Maguire
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1/ I find it endlessly fascinating that if you're writing critically about how dark money groups are sham nonprofits that exist only to use tax-exempt status to shield their donors from disclosure, they will protest vehemently
2/ But if you're just doing a story about their stance heading into an election, they will give you financial details and quotes, even though you are discussing them as indistinguishable from their super PACs -- which are, by definition, political politico.com/news/2020/01/3…
3/ Look at the title there: "Trump's Super PAC."

The story is talking about $50.4 million raised by America First Action (super PAC) and America First Policies (dark money), but the majority of that, $31 million, was raised by....not the super PAC cnbc.com/2020/01/31/pro…
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RUSSIAN COLLUSION

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Lola Netty
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Trump's been roasting Congress since 1993 lol
the first half hehe

Trump has been the same person ever since he's been in public eye, and yet, the American people still elected him...

When will the Democrats learn?
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Karol 🌿
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Deutsche Bank ♥️ Trump

📌A Profitable Decades-long Love Affair

📌Why on earth would Deutsche Bank (DB) continue to lend money to a notorious loan defaulter like Trump?

📌This is a key part re TrumpRussia
‼️Theory:‼️

Is it logical to conclude that Russia funnels (launders) money into Deutsche Bank, which then ‘washes’ money via back door deals & then loans the money to Trump.

Ergo is DB the middleman between RU & Trump earning sizable fees on every transaction? Win, win, no?
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Investigators are seeking evidence in a massive money laundering scheme involving Deutsche Bank about the practice of hiding money offshore to elude tax collectors and government regulators.
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Josh Russell
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Based on this nbc data you can still find lots of bot/troll accounts twitter missed.
how to:
Search hashtags ON a date.
Search for the actual tweets.
the accounts all "look" the same, low status counts, low follower counts, created at the same tnbcnews.com/tech/social-me…gbquNiCcd2
just using that and a tip from @z3dster gets me 6 accounts to look at.

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@DannyyyyPayton
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those are all troll factory/internet research agency accounts.
so pull the accounts that follow them.
you get all these shady looking accounts with the same stats.
drop the false positives, drop the duplicates. you get about 180 accounts worth looking at.
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